A quiet Gothic love story
The Gravedigger’s Handbook
For another gentle story of love and loss.
Bittersweet; a complete story.
About the story
Lester arrives from England on a Thai island whose rhythms he is still learning. Silom, a young boatman, knows its tides and the obligations holding his family together. Their attraction grows among differences of class, culture and expectation. Over the years, distance, silence and events neither man can control change the island and their lives. A complete adult queer love story about Thailand, lost time and the choices love asks of people. Intimate and hopeful, with grief and bittersweet passages along the way.
What to expect
An English visitor, a Thai boatman and an island changed by passing years.
Ending and reading order
Hopeful, with bittersweet passages; a complete story.
Content notes
- Explicit sexual content
- Closeting and family pressure
- Queerphobic violence
- Disaster and its aftermath
- Death and grief
